It stars Shea Whigham, Michael Shannon, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Bobby Soto, Bruno Bichir and Alvaro Martinez.

Preacher David Martin finds a man unconscious at the side of the road in West Texas.

Celia's cousins, adult Valentin and teenaged Poco, grow marijuana at the quarry.

In April 2019, it was announced Shea Whigham and Michael Shannon had joined the cast of the film, with Scott Teems directing from a screenplay he wrote alongside Andrew Brotzman, based upon the novel of the same name by Damon Galgut.

The site's critics consensus reads: "The Quarry's potboiler premise is largely squandered on a slow-moving plot whose meanderings thwart the efforts of a talented cast.